Mastigophora diclados

Mastigophora diclados (Brid.) Nees, a liverwort that occurs in the mountains of tropical Asia, has been studied for its chemical constituents by Asakawa and his colleagues. Accessions from two disjunct sites in Malaysia were examined, one from Sabah State (1900-2500 m on Mt. Kinabalu) and one in West Malaysia from Pahang State (1500 m on Mt. Reskit). The East Malaysian material afforded compounds of the sort here exemplified by a-herbertenol [460] and mastifophorene-A [461]... 

Leong, Y.-W. and Harrison, L. J. 1997. ent-Trachylobane diterpenoids from the liverwort Mastigophora diclados. Phytochemistry 45 1457-1459. 

Hashimoto T, Irita H, Takaoka S, Tanaka M, Asakawa Y (2000) New Chlorinated Cyclic Bis(bibenzyls) from the Liverworts Herbertus sakuraii and Mastigophora diclados. Tetrahedron 56 3153... 

The liverworts Herbertus aduncus, Herbertus sakurai, and Mastigophora diclados produce (-)-herbertene, the C3 methyl isomer of cuparene, with its hydroxy derivatives, for example, her-bertanediol (339), which shows no production inhibitory activity (Harinantenaina et al., 2007), and herbertenol (342). Treatment of compound (339) in P. sclerotiorum in Czapek-polypeptone medium gave two dimeric products, mastigophorene A (340) and mastigophorene B (341), which showed neurotrophic activity (Harinantenaina et al., 2005). 

Komala I, Ito T, Nagashima F, Yagi Y, Asakawa Y. Cytotoxic, radical scavenging and antimicrobial activities of ses-quiterpenoids from the Tahitian liverwort Mastigophora diclados (Brid.) Nees (Mastigophoraceae). J. Nat. Med. 

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